Cleistanthus.j CXVIi. EUPHOEBIACEiG. 1413 



stipitate. Filaments united in a column to more than half their length. Female 

 flowers on distinct branches of the same tree {li. Broim), Ovary glabrous [Baillon), 

 Capsule closely sessile. — Amanna DaLlachyana, Baill. Adans. vi. 335. 



Hab.: Herbert Eiver, H. G. Eaton; Northumberland and Cumberland islands, R.Brown; 

 Bockhampton, Dallacliy, Thozet. 



4. C. semiopacus (scarcely shining), F. r. M. Herb. ; Benth. Fl. Austi: 

 vi. 123. A tree with the branches more slender than in U. Ballachyanus, but 

 the inflorescence and young shoots ferruginous-pubescent as in that species, the 

 adult foliage glabrous but glaucous underneath. Leaves ovate, acuminate, rather 

 thickly coriaceous, 2 to 4in. long. Flowers smaller than in C. Dallachyanus, the 

 clusters closely sessile in interrupted leafless spikes of 1 to 2in., and sometimes 

 paniculate, or the lower clusters in the axils of floral leaves. Calyx-segments 

 pubescent outside, nearly 1 line long. Petals small, broad, entire or toothed. 

 Staminal column as long as the free part of the filaments. Ovary and young 

 capsule sessile, densely pubescent. Outer margin of the disk scarcely prominent 

 under the very short cup. Fruit depressed-globular, tridymous, nearly 3 lines 

 diameter, ferruginous-villous or at length nearly glabrous. 



Hab.: Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 



12. ACTEPHILA, Blume. 



{Actc, the sea-shore, and pMlos, fond. Coastal plants.) 



Flowers monoecious, in axillary clusters or solitary. Male flowers : Perianth 

 of 5 or 6 segments spreading out flat, the inner ones rather larger than the 

 outer. Petals (or petal-like glands ?) small, as many as perianth-segments, and 

 ■alternating with them or none. Stamens 3 to 6, inserted near the centre of a 

 ■broad concave disk and surrounding a 2 or 3-fid style, the ovary abortive. 

 Anthers with 2 cells at first parallel and turned inwards, at length usually 

 'divaricate, opening longitudinally in 2 valves. Female flowers : Perianth and 

 disk of the males. Ovary 3-celled with 2 ovules in each cell. Styles 3, shortly 

 ■2-fid, or entire, free or united at the base. Fruit separating into 3 2-valved 

 cocci, the pericarp hard. Seeds large, with a membranous brittle testa ; albumen 

 ■very scanty or none. Embryo curved, the cotyledons very thick fleshy and 

 folded one over the other or much contortuplicate. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves 

 alternate, petiolate, entire, usually large, coriaceous when full-grown. Flowers 

 rather small, often several females as well as males in the same cluster, all 

 pedicellate. Capsule globular, usually large and smooth. 



The genus comprises few species, dispersed over tropical Asia ; the Australian ones are, 

 however, all endemic. 



Leaves on petioles of J to lin. 

 Petals present (very small). Stamens 5 or 4. Leaves oblong-lanceolate 

 or narrow-elliptical, tapering into the petiole. 



Tedicels J to lin. long 1. A. grandijolia. 



I'edicels 1 to 3 line5 long 2. A. Mooreana. 



No petals. Stamens 5. Leaves obovate or broadly elliptical Z. A. latifoUa. 



No petals. Stamens 3. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, rounded at the base, on 



rather long petioles i. A. petiolaris. 



Leaves sessile or nearly so, oblong, cordate at the base 5. A. sessilifolia. 



1. A. grandifolia (leaves large), Baill. Adans. vi. 330, 360, t. 10 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Austr. vi. 89. A glabrous tree or shrub of various heights. Leaves petiolate, 

 oblong-lanceolate or elliptical, shortly and obtusely acuminate, tapering towards 

 the base, coriaceous, smooth, 5 to 8in. long, on a petiole varying from under ^in. 

 to fin. Flowers of both sexes in the same cluster usually rather more 

 females than males, on pedicels of f to lin. Male perianth spreading 

 to a diameter of 3 lines, the inner segments larger than the outer. Petals ? 6, 



